If chemicals like oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin are so crucial to our mental health, why can’t we monitor them the same way diabetics monitor insulin?

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If chemicals like oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin are so crucial to our mental health, why can’t we monitor them the same way diabetics monitor insulin?

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Diabetics don’t monitor insulin. They monitor blood sugar. Blood sugar is relatively straightforward to detect. Neurotransmitters and hormones are hard to measure, and it wouldn’t be practical to have people do so in their homes.

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